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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 764791" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Hi Newstart. You sound very strong and realistic. Also caring, appropriately accepting, and tolerant.</p><p></p><p>Like you, I am worn out. I have tried and tried with my son and he gets worse and worse with us. More demanding, more entitled, and more manipulative. He is more unstable and more explosive. I just don't want him around me. And I am telling him. He wants to come here to shower and I won't let him. I got to the point where I even said, why do you even come back here to our town?</p><p></p><p>He is homeless and moves from place to place. I am at the point where I don't like his presence and feel I have to be on guard. It is against my nature to be rejecting and rigid, but I have become this way with the person I love most in the world. I still love him, but I don't much like to be around him, and if I tell the truth I do not like the person he has become.</p><p></p><p>I feel bad about myself that I can't operate from love. I seem to be operating from "stay away."</p><p></p><p>You have worked so hard on your relationship with your daughter. But it seems to be that she gave something too, she tried. She might not have met you half way, but she tried. My son insists that I do all the work and accept him as he is. And he's intolerable. It's all very sad. In a million years I wouldn't have guessed we would have ended up here, in this place. But we have. I send love.</p><p></p><p>PS I hope your husband feels better soon.</p><p>PSS I really like how you type in italics. <em>I may try it.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 764791, member: 18958"] Hi Newstart. You sound very strong and realistic. Also caring, appropriately accepting, and tolerant. Like you, I am worn out. I have tried and tried with my son and he gets worse and worse with us. More demanding, more entitled, and more manipulative. He is more unstable and more explosive. I just don't want him around me. And I am telling him. He wants to come here to shower and I won't let him. I got to the point where I even said, why do you even come back here to our town? He is homeless and moves from place to place. I am at the point where I don't like his presence and feel I have to be on guard. It is against my nature to be rejecting and rigid, but I have become this way with the person I love most in the world. I still love him, but I don't much like to be around him, and if I tell the truth I do not like the person he has become. I feel bad about myself that I can't operate from love. I seem to be operating from "stay away." You have worked so hard on your relationship with your daughter. But it seems to be that she gave something too, she tried. She might not have met you half way, but she tried. My son insists that I do all the work and accept him as he is. And he's intolerable. It's all very sad. In a million years I wouldn't have guessed we would have ended up here, in this place. But we have. I send love. PS I hope your husband feels better soon. PSS I really like how you type in italics. [I]I may try it.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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